[Sust-mar] Nine great upcoming events and three important announcements - from Elizabeth May on May 30 to Robert Fisk on June 9

[Tamara Lorincz]

Nine great upcoming environmental and social justice events and three
important announcements - please circulate far and wide! Sorry for
cross-postings :)


UPCOMING EVENTS

1.
"On Climate Change, the Alberta Tar Sands and her latest book 'How to Save
the Planet in Your Spare Time'" 
Elizabeth May
O.C, Environmentalist, Writer, Activist and Lawyer

Tuesday, May 30
7:00-9:00 PM
Scotiabank Auditorium
FASS/McCain Building
Dalhousie University
6135 University Avenue
Halifax
Free. All Welcome.

Elizabeth May will be giving a free public lecture on climate change, the
Alberta Tar Sands and her latest book "How to Save the Planet in Your Spare
Time." This is her first stop of her national speaking tour entitled
"Clearing the Air on Climate Change" on the environmental impacts of a
rapidly expanding Athabasca Tar Sands in Alberta and the latest federal
government developments related to the Kyoto Protocol.” How to Save the
Planet in Your Spare Time" is her fifth book. Elizabeth's message will
inspire us to take action on climate change and to do our part to save the
planet. Elizabeth is a superb, knowledgeable speaker and activist. An
empowering talk that is not-to-miss! Book selling and signing to follow the
public lecture. Books available in advance from Outside the Lines: Books for
Critical Minds book store 6297 Quinpool Rd., Halifax. Organized by the Nova
Scotia Environmental Network. For more details, please contact Tamara
Lorincz, Executive Director of the Nova Scotia Environmental Network at
nsen at web.ca or phone 902-454-6846.
For more information about Elizabeth, please visit her web site at:
www.elizabethmay.ca For more information about climate change, please check
out the Sierra Club of Canada: http://www.sierraclub.ca/ For more
information about the tar sands, please see: www.mackenziewild.ca


2. 
Tickets are selling out quickly for “An Evening with David Suzuki” on the
publication of his memoir. The event is Tuesday, Jun 13 at 7pm at the Lord
Nelson Hotel, 1515 South Park Street in Halifax. Tickets are $5 or can be
used toward the purchase of his memoir. Tickets are available at the
BookMark bookstore 5686 Spring Garden Road, Tel: 902-423-0419

Other Suzuki speaking engagements in Nova Scotia:
Monday, June 12
NEW GLASGOW, NS 
Nova Scotia Community College, Stellarton Campus, 7 pm
Contact: Pictou Antigonish Regional Library
Free, but please ask for tickets in advance from Steve MacClean at the
library, 902-755-6032.

More info here about Suzuki's speaking engagements:
http://www.davidsuzuki.org/About_us/Dr_David_Suzuki/Appearances.asp


3. 
Join a study circle on the book "The Natural Step for Communities: How
Cities and Towns can Change to Sustainable Practices." The study circle will
also take place on Tuesday, June 6, from 1 pm to 3 pm, in the Risk Room,
second floor, Rowe Management Building, Dalhousie Campus, 6100 University
Ave It will provide an opportunity for participants to delve more deeply
into how communities have used The Natural Step framework to move towards
sustainability. Copies of the book are available directly from New Society
Publishers (www.newsociety.com), or at P’lovers (5657 Spring Garden Rd.).
The Halifax Regional Library also has two copies available for borrowing.
The event is organized by the Nova Scotia Environmental Network and the
Genuine Progress Index (GPI) Atlantic.  To ensure we have appropriate space
and refreshments, please RSVP by Friday, June 2 to Clare Levin
(clevin at gpiatlantic.org or 902-489-2524)


4. 
GPI Atlantic, the Nova Scotia Environmental Network (NSEN), and the Nova
Scotia Education for Sustainable Development Working Group (NSESDWG) will be
hosting a “Lunch and Learn” about the early adopter process used by The
Natural Step, from 12 noon to 1 pm, on Friday, June 30, in Room 104 of the
Weldon Law Building, Dalhousie Campus, 6061 University Ave. Speakers Laura
MacKay and Mitch Rhodes will give an inspirational presentation on The
Natural Step’s early adopters process, and discuss how to ignite the
“fire-souls” in any community. Both presenters hold Masters degrees in
Strategic Leadership Towards Sustainability, a program offered in Sweden and
based on The Natural Step. Mitch was involved extensively with Whistler’s
move towards sustainability, and will discuss his experiences there. Laura
is a Communications Associate with The Natural Step Canada, and will delve
into several other relevant case studies of community adoption of TNS. Light
refreshments will be available, or bring your own lunch. For more
information, please contact: Clare Levin (clevin at gpiatlantic.org or
902-489-2524)


5. 
Al Gore's, "Inconvenient Truth" will be in Halifax on June 16th!
Movie description: Extreme poverty, intractable wars, virulent disease,
hatred of all stripes–these are a few of the scourges we live with today.
And yet global climate change trumps them all; for if it's not addressed,
all life on the planet will be devastated, regardless of geography, class,
race, or creed. The Inconvenient Truth is the gripping story of former Vice
President Al Gore, who became interested in this startling issue while at
college 30 years ago, and now devotes his life to reversing global warming.
Traveling the world, he has built a visually mesmerizing presentation
designed to disabuse doubters of the notion that climate change is
debatable. The heart of Davis Guggenheim's film is this elegant multimedia
lecture itself, where Gore indisputably correlates CO2 emissions with
exponentially rising temperatures, already responsible for dramatic
climactic shifts like ice-cap melting, drought, and rising sea levels.
Interwoven with this riveting public address are intimate moments revealing
the poetic, searching side of Gore as he struggles to define his purpose in
the aftermath of the 2000 election. This is activist cinema at its very
best, for it serves to popularize and demythologize a problem long obscured
by those most threatened by the solution. With humor and searing
intelligence, Gore outlines crucial steps we must take to avert impending
disaster and proves that inaction is no longer an option–in fact, it's
immoral.— Caroline Libresco 
HALIFAX: Opens June 16, Park Lane
Promo Screening: Thursday June 15, 7pm, Park Lane


6. 
Tiempos Nuevos Teatre from El Salvador presents Erase una Vez un Rey (Once
Upon A Time A King) by Grupo Aleph, from Chile
Tatamagouche Tuesday, May 23rd, 7:30pm
Tatamagouche Creamery
$8 - $15 (based on ability to pay)
Refreshments provided
Wolfville, Friday, May 26th, 8pm, Acadia Cinema
$8 - $15 (based on ability to pay)
Halifax, Saturday, May 27th, 8:00 pm, St. John's Church
corner of Willow and Windsor St. $8 - $15 (based on ability to pay)
The play allows us to meet two characters who exist amidst a sea of garbage.
>From this they create a variety of stories, playing characters and
portraying the struggles of people in their country. When a third person
intrudes the  drama becomes more intens. A very imaginative and physical
show. Grupo  Aleph, founded in Chile in 1968, supported the social,
political, and economic transformation Chile was going through at that time.
The popular theater group TNT, in Nova Scotia for an international theatre
festival, began in 1993 in the northeast of El Salvador. Working with
children and grandchildren of those affected by the past armed conflict, TNT
continues to address issues of  social concern in these communities. This
performance is a benefit for the work of TNT.
FOR MORE INFORMATION GO TO: http://halifaxpeacecoalition.ca


7. 
YOU ARE INVITED TO THE LAUNCH OF "TURNING THE WORLD RIGHT-SIDE UP: SCIENCE,
COMMUNITY AND DEMOCRACY"
By Patrick Kerans and John Kearney
Wednesday, June 14
7.00 p.m.
the Halifax North End Library
2285 Gottigen Street
Light refreshments will be served
For more on the book, go to http://www.sciencecommunitydemocracy.ca
Marion & Pat Kerans
309-30 McEwen
Ottawa, ON K2B 5K8
(613) 829-5009

8. 
Robert Fisk in Nova Scotia on June 9!
Middle Eastern Correspendent for The Independent
One of my highly respected journalists in the world
Author of the recent book that is a tour-de-force “The Great War For
Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East”
Friday, June 9
7PM
North Nova Education Centre (Regional High School) Performance Centre Park
St., New Glasgow
Ticketed event. Donations appreciated.
For more information and to get a ticket to reserve your seat, please
contact:
Steve MacClean
Pictou Antigonish Regional Library
902-755-6032


ANNOUNCEMENTS

1. 
Sunny greetings,  Anyone interested in helping plan the environmental
conference taking place this summer is welcome to join us this Friday, May
26 at noon in the Sierra Club office, which is on the 5th floor of the Roy
Building (1657 Barrington, Suite 507). Bring your ideas and your lunch. The
Nova Scotia Environmental Network and the Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter will
be hosting an environmental conference from Friday, July 28-Sunday, July 30
at the Shire Learning Centre in Carlton, Yarmouth County. Please mark your
calendars. If you would like to help make this a great conference or if you
would like to run a workshop, please let me know. Please forward to anyone
who might be interested in attending this meeting and helping out. If you
have any questions in the meantime, contact me at jackiekanyuk at gmail.com or
at 425-7535.  Thank you and kind regards!
Jackie Kanyuk


2. 
Public Consultation : Environment Act Amendments
Carolyn Bolivar-Getson, Minister of Environment and Labour, tabled proposed
amendments to the Environment Act in the Legislature on May 8, 2006. For
copies of this bill please call toll-free 1-800-567-7544. NSEL is consulting
with the public over the summer to make sure that these amendments will
serve Nova Scotians now and into the future.
Please send any written comments by September 8, 2006 to:
Environment Act Amendments
Nova Scotia Environment and Labour
Policy Division
PO Box 697
Halifax, NS
B3J 2T8
http://www.gov.ns.ca/enla/airlandwater/envactconsultation.asp


3.
*Please help put the Environment at the TOP of the political agenda, by
becoming a Word Warrior. Please commit to writing a letter to the editor on
environmental issues every week during this election, send to the Daily
News: letterstoeditor at hfxnews.ca Chronicle Herald: letters at herald.ca and to
your local community paper. Please also copy nsen (nsen at web.ca) on your
letter so we can keep track of what is being written and sent. It will be up
to all of us to make a difference in this election and in this province. 


Enjoy!

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Tamara Lorincz
Executive Director (NSEN)
Nova Scotia Environmental Network 
55 Willowbend Ct. 
Halifax, NS Canada B3M 3L3
Phone: 902-454-6846
Fax: 902-454-6841
Email: nsen at web.ca
Web Site: www.nsen.ca